Over the last week I could swear I’ve seen way more types suddenly throwing around the word troglodyte left right and centre
Maybe it’s the latest way of writing us off
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You’re all bots!
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You may not be bots, but you’re all paid agents!
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You may not be paid agents, but you’re all blindly ideological tankies!
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You may not be blindly ideological, but you’re all terminally online basement dwellers!
You may not be blindly ideological, but you’re all terminally online basement dwellers!
They’re awfully fond of the already tiresome “touch grass” cliche, because if you’re not clinking glasses in a wine cave and you actually want to improve society somewhat, you must be a shut-in.
I suppose it’s just another one of those words that makes ebic bacon redditeurs feel smart when using it
They’ll switch to something else next week lol
Some Reddity words persist for many years, like “vitriol.” They love that one.
Why the fuck is “troglodyte” an offensive word anyways, seriously, underground dwellings are great for temperature, noise, security, energy efficiency, environmental friendliness, cost of construction, disaster preparedness, you name it, they’ve been used by countless peoples since the dawn of mankind because they’re a genuinely great form of housing, honestly we should fucking ALL be troglodytes instead of deforesting the world to build fucking suburbs killing the planet filling the sky with so much light pollution and actual pollution that I can’t even see the fucking stars half the time. The McMansion and its consequences have been a disas
Well, the housing co-op where I live was actually built into the side of a hill, but not really in a cave dwelling type of way. So I guess I’m more of a half-troglodyte who spends a bizarre amount of time fantasizing about becoming a full troglodyte.
I live in a below street row house and it destroyed my mood. Humans are meant to see light.
Cave dwellings throughout history have generally had pretty good natural lighting, incidentally, since ancient humans had an even greater need for natural light than modern humans do. Your below street row house having poor enough natural lighting to basically drive a man to depression I’m willing to guess is a lot more to do with cost-cutting on the housing market than anything, honestly.
With fiber optic cables directing sunlight miles underground, we could build a rad troggie community [edit: is troggie a slur? because it sounds bad but also I just made it up]
Very recently I’ve also seen “Unga Bunga” being said by totally-not-racist racist liberals, and they pretend to be innocent smol beans that totally only think of 90s video games with cavemen when they think “Unga Bunga.”
Favorite part of federation was the one liberal who couldn’t contain their rabid racism anymore and started unironically doing the “Shling Shong Winnie the Pooh” bit
I thought it was supposed to be a sound a gorilla makes. Anyway, whether it should be changed or not, “unga” currently sits as the standard term in the fgc for characters with excessively safe moves (who thereby enable button mashing, mindless offense, hence gorillas).
I’m pretty sure lots of people in communities use racist terminology that was derived from Heated G!mer Moments without knowing where it came from. And that’s understandable.
It’s like the use of (CW: Ableistic slang)
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“REEEEEE” to describe someone being upset.
But some get so protective of their edgy slang that they cite caveman themed video games from the 90s to justify contemporary use and argue for hours against everyone saying otherwise.
The fgc is profoundly sexist, but it’s very multiracial, with a particularly large proportion of black members, including the NB person who is currently held as the best in the genre, sonicfox. It’s possible that I just don’t know the origin, but I wouldn’t guess that it was something anti-black because then there would probably be more pushback against it.
I’ve seen it going around, but only in reference to video game strategies that amount to “forget strategy, just go hit it until it dies”
“Tank and spank” is what I usually hear. Maybe I don’t group up with enough totally-not-racists when strategizing.
